sir john fox (30 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Fair. 1924. 248 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth with a black and white illustrated frontis. Moderate tanning to pages with heavier foxing and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Visible tanning to text block-fore edge and bottom edge. Boards have visible rubbing and moderate bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends and visible sunning to spine as well. Book is also forward leaning.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Softcover. Zustand: Good. Magazine. Printed wrappers. Octavo. 59pp. Rubbing, edgewear, and a long tear on the rear panel, good. This issue features Hugh MacDiarmid, Sydney Goodsir Smith, Sir Compton Mackenzie, Naomi Mitchison, Douglas Young, A.V. Stuart, Alexander Buist, William Kean Seymour, David Low, C. Day Lewis, Sir Francis Meynell, Canon Adam Fox, John Smith, Lady Margaret Sackville, Vernon Scannell, and Margaret Stanley-Wrench. Additional contributors include Gilbert Thomas, Paul Selver, Ilko Iliev, Paula Nelson, Phyllis M. Scott, Canon Adam Fox, Mary Field, Rita Spurr, M. Shand Smith, Evelyn D. Bangay, Stephen Graham, Kathleen Valmai Richardson, Joan Forman, Geoffrey Johnson, Geoggrey Dearmer, Herbert Palmer, Robert Armstrong, and Kennedy Williamson.

Zustand: Fine. New/unused condition with small scuffs to the cover. The content is in new condition.

Cloth-backed Boards. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: None. 106 pages, portrait frontispiece. Some foxing, but generally a very nice copy.

Zustand: New. In.

Zustand: Fine. Unused/new. Light marks to cover & some scuffs to edges. A few light marks/scratches to textblock edges. Content is in new condition.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. 1924. First edition. xii, 248pp. and a frontispiece portrait. Sir John Charles Fox (1855-1943) was the eldest son of John Fox, solicitor. He was admitted a solicitor in 1876 and became a Chief Clerk in the Chancery Division in 1891, the title of this office being changed to Master in 1897. He became Senior Master in 1917 and retired in 1921. He was one of the editors of the Yearly Supreme Court Practice, and the author of Handbook of English Law Reports (1913) and other works. This book is an examination of the separation of Lord and Lady Byron. The book is bound in the original greyish-blue cloth covered boards with gold titling on the spine. The case of the book is in very good condition with light bumping to the spine ends and bottom front corner and heavier bumping to the bottom rear corner. The contents are tight and clean with light to moderate foxing to the preliminary and first few pages and a few scattered light marks elsewhere within the book. The fore edge of the text block is fairly heavily foxed and on some pages this has seeped a little way into the fore margin. The front fixed endpaper has some pencil notes, a name and date written in ink (1933), and a bookplate. The unclipped dustwrapper has some shelf wear and soiling and the spine is browned. The corners and spine ends are bumped. The wrapper is in a removable clear protective cover.

Zustand: New. In.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Frontispece black and white painting of the writer of the articles in 'Temple Bar' (illustrator). Mostly concerns the separation of the poet Lord Byron from his wife.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Some edge nicks to the spine ends. Slight dulling to the panel edges. Light foxing to prelims. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xii, 248 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill., port. ; 23 cm. Subjects: Byron, George Gordon Byron Baron 1788-1824 -- Byron, Anne Isabella Milbanke Byron Baroness 1792-1860. Biography -- English literature -- Poetry and poets -- Romanticism. 3 Kg.

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original publisher's gilt-blocked cloth, edges very slightly toned. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. Physical description; xii, 248 p. ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references. Subjects; Byron, George Gordon Byron Baron (1788-1824) Marriage. Byron, Anne Isabella Milbanke Noel Byron Baroness (1792-1860). Byron, Anne Isabella Milbanke Byron Baroness (1792-1860). Byron, George Gordon Byron Baron (1788-1824). Byron, Anne Isabella Baroness Byron. Byron, George Gordon Byron Baron. Byron, George Gordon Baron Byron Studies. Poets, English 19th century Biography. Genre; Illustrated. 3 Kg.

On the lower part of a letter, cut to form a rectangle, 11.5 x 18 cm. In good condition, with traces of stub from mounting along one edge, and a thin strip of paper, with Burgoyne's name in manuscript neatly laid down beneath the signature. Reads 'I have the honor to be | Your Excellency's | Most Obedient | Humble Servant | [signed] J. F. Burgoyne | Lt Genl.' Reverse reads ' Order of Nistan Medjidge, which His Majesty the Sultan has been graciously pleased to confer upon me, & I take the liberty of requesting your Excellency to be ', Addressed at foot of page to 'His Exy | The Lord Stratford de Redcliffe GCB | &c &c &c'.

Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnThis is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the origina.

Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnThis is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the origina.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. The Byron Mystery, by Sir John C. Fox, Late Senior Master of the Supreme Court, Chancery Division. Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 2021), British historian, academic and author. His signature, dated to 1987, to first free endpaper., and just one further annotation to the dedication page. Please see our other listings for related works. Published by Grant Richards Ltd, London, 1924. First edition. A good blue cloth hardback with mild bumping and wear, and a scratch to front cover. Some spotting to half title and blank, but otherwise text clean and bright. A little give in the spine, but soundly bound. xii + 248pp. Text in English. Weight approximately 510g (unpacked). Dimensions: Approximately 226mm high x 146mm wide x 32mm deep.

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 1875. Other volumes in this set include ISBN number(s): 0766128016. Volume 2 of a 2 volume set. The most comprehensive book ever published on martyrdom. Graphically illustrated and depicts the tragedies, the names of the holy men who fell victims to the emissaries of the papacy, the truths taught at the stake, which superstitious priests hoped to annihilate in the flames that consumed their advocated, and the bibles they tried to bury in the graves that contained the ashes of the noble arm of martyrs. Volume 2 of a two volume set. This description applies to both volumes.

2nd edition. Good to very good copy. Dis-bound as issued. Pages dust-toned. Text remains clear without blemish. Physical description: 24 p.; 22 cm. Notes: Title from cover. Subjects: Great Britain. Army. Great Britain Defenses. 3 Kg.

Stipple engraving,

Stipple engraving,

See Mrs George Wrottesley's obituary in The Times, 10 May 1883, in which she is praised for 'her undaunted courage and unshaken endurance of difficulties displayed repeatedly during her father's mission to the East' in 1854. 1p., 12mo. In fair condition, lightly aged. The main body of the letter reads: 'Mrs. George Wrottesley will feel much obliged to Mr Lacy if he will send her a copy of the play of | "The Wonder" - | The address is to | The Honble. | Mrs. George Wrottesley | Wrottesley | Wolverhampton'. At the head of the letter she adds a query concerning 'the play of Donna Diana'.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. 106pp. Half cloth, blue papercovered boards, gilt-stamped title on front and spine. Corners bumped, newspaper clipping pertaining to Percial Beevor Lambert tipped in on front pastedown, owner's blind embossed stamp and penned name on front fly, else very good. Signed by Fox on title. Handwritten letter from P.B. Lambert tipped in rear, dated 1 Jan, 1923.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. pp. vii, 479. A nice copy in later half calf, gilt back. book label of William C.Stuart. First Edition. Sir John Fox Burgoyne, royal engineer, was the illegitimate son of General John Burgoyne [1722-1792]. He served in Malta, Sicily, and Egypt, 1800-07, with Sir John Moore s expedition, 1808-09, with Wellington throughout the Peninsular War, in the American campaign, 1814-15, and in the Crimean capaign, 1853-55. From 1845 to 1868 he was inspector-general of fortifications. Burgoyne became a general in 1855 and was created baronet in 1856.

3pp., 12mo. Bifolium. In good condition, lightly aged. Addressed to 'Sir John F. Burgoyne. | Bart:'. He is sending 'a copy of the Abstracts from Meteorological observations taken at our Foreign stations, in which Sir Emerson Tennent will find the abstract from the observations taken at Columbo in the year 1853-4'. He is also sending abstracts from subsequent years which 'have not yet been printed'.

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4pp., 12mo. Bifolium. 61 lines, closely written in a crabbed, difficult hand. Good, on lightly-aged paper. He begins by thanking her for a book, before commenting: 'Things are in such a queer state in this country that it is hard to know what will happen. This Government is enough to drive one mad. They are afraid to do a thing until the Convention has come to some sort of compromise (which no party will accept). The Sin [sic] Feins will do their best to upset any recommendation the Convention may come to. You must remember there are the Ulster men (Royalists) Royalists [sic] from all parts. [.] Bring all them together and get them to agree if you can. Just like Russia. [.] Here we know nothing of the war. This country is full of shirkers. [.] I had about 10 acres of tillage in the old days now this year I am obliged to till about 87 acres. We cannot use our motor except very little. I there have put it up and bought a Tractor and have a man for driving it ploughing and all farm work. I enclose you a photo of it done by Millicent. It cost £400 - 0 - 0 and is the only one in Ireland. I like it. it will do all farm work only 4' wide 8' long and will turn in its own length. Therefore can get almost any place 20 Horse Power.' He ends by discussing conscription.

(ii), 44pp, with final blank. Disbound. ESTC N 4816,Edinburgh and Oxford only in UK, not in BL. Concerning the raid on Rochefort. 'A bold stroke' against the French was advocated by the new British leader, William Pitt and an expeditionary force was sent under Sir John Mordaunt, who appeared to find reasons not to make a landing - and the force was withdrawn. A Court Martial acquitted Mordaunt on the basis that the whole operation was ill-conceived.